Photo, Portrait Of ‘cannibal Tom’, Fiji Island, Oceania

Portrait of "Cannibal Tom", Fiji Islands, Oceania.

Silver print from the beginning of the 20th century. Stamp on the back by Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Paris.
Slightly curled paper, insolations in the margins.
Presented in famous photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the last cannibal of Fiji, it seems that this character with the famous nickname lived off the coast of Australia. He is said to have participated in the cannibal fight of 1878 against the troops of the Reverend Thomas Bekker.

Charles Chusseau-Flaviens' agency was one of the first press agencies of the early 20th century. His images, which illustrated reports on foreign personalities, today take on an ethnographic interest.